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...persuaded the University Dining Services to grant their soft drink contract to Coke instead of Pepsi, in criticism of Pepsi’s business operations in Burma. Coke itself is now the target of student activists at Harvard who allege that the company violates the rights of workers in Colombia...
...also targets AlliedBarton Security Services, a firm that Harvard employs. The campaign focuses on securing workers their legal right to unionize without fear of reprisal. A national organizer for United Students Against Sweatshops, Camilo A. Romero, translated a speech delivered by Gerrardo Cajamarca, a former Coke employee in Colombia who now works for the Colombian food and beverages workers union Sinal Trainal. Cajamarca charged that Coke-funded paramilitaries had assassinated eight Colomobian unionizers. Through Romero, Cajamarca said, “this is an effort to sew fear, sew terror in the hearts of these workers who are trying to form...
French jewelry designer Marie-Hélène de Taillac has agreed to take me on an insider's gem-shopping adventure here in Jaipur, where many of the world's colored stones?emeralds from Colombia, rubies from Burma, aquamarines from Brazil?are cut and polished before they are shipped to such stores as Tiffany, Wal-Mart and neighborhood jewelers. Two flights up, there are shoes everywhere?loafers, sandals and dainty, beaded dance slippers. Double doors draped with wilted marigolds lead to De Taillac's atelier. Lit by stark winter sunlight, the room's entire floor is laid with mattresses covered...
This assertion, along with claims that Coca-Cola stood by while its workers suffered 179 human rights violations and nine murders at the hands of paramilitary groups, is documented in a 2004 report by the New York City Fact-Finding Delegation on Coca-Cola in Colombia, a seven-member group of local officials, union leaders, and students...
...HUDS Student Advisory Committee, Aaron D. Chadbourne ’06, wrote in an e-mail that the committee has “at no point...been involved in discussions about the contracts that HUDS has with Coca-Cola. Nor have we investigated conditions in India or Colombia...